I’ve been getting into some home automation for our apartment for a while, ever since my father got us an Amazon Alexa device to call home with. Since then we expanded our setup to include smart plugs, Philips Hue lighting, and some Broadlink IR controllers.

Whilst these products can function...

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is the free and open source implementation of the OpenPGP protocol, that allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communication.

In the context of git, this allows users to verify that data is coming from a trusted source.

This article will...

I’m running a fresh install Ubuntu Gnome 16.10 on my XPS 15 and I noticed that whenever I put the laptop in suspend I was unable to connect to my WiFi network upon resume.

Looking online it appears that I am not alone with this problem. Following the discussion...

Kodi is an open source piece of software designed to provide a media center experience for your video, music, pictures, and applications. It runs of many different platforms including Linux, MacOS, Windows, and Android.

This article will cover my experience setting up a media center like experience, specifically using...

I’ve been playing around with some linux live distributions recently but the main problem I had was the inability to have network support with the majority of them due to my WiFi broadcom chip not being supported out of the box.

Thankfully I found that USB tethering via an Android...